Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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