Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONG
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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