I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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