What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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