What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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 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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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