My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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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.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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