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 JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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