#our

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dark #dark place #everyone #follow #leads

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ↗

— Erica Jong

#hands #happens #life #own #take

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ambivalent #babies #being #being human #best

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 endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

#especially #fact #friends #in fact #love

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#speak #yourself

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#got #you #yourself

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#down #i #ok #outrageous #own

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#about #afternoon #better #better world #blankets

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#beings #clear #different #human #human beings