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 JONGOften 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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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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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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 by exhortation.
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