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 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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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