It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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 new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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