Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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