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 JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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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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