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 JONGWomen are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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