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.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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