Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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