We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Solitude is un-American.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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