Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGDo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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