What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Home is where your books are.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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