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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.

Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONG

Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONG

Awakened Service Soul Through
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.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONG

Direction Face Long Matter Right Size Step
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG

Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
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.
ERICA JONG

Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONG

Always Attitude Change History Line People Proceed Social Straight Think
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONG

Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONG

Creative Gitl Good Still
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONG

Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONG

Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONG

Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG

Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing

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