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 JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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