You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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