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 JONGIf, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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