Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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