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 JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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