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 JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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