Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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