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.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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