Erica Jong Quotes

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• It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
• Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child…
• This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
• The soul is awakened through service.
• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get…
• Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too…
• 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…
• Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
• Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
• Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
• When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
• You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
• Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an…
• Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they…
• Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that…
• Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip,…
• In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about…
• There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as…
• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How…
• At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

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