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 JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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