Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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