Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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