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.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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