Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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