Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGFreedom 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Home is where your books are.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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