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.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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