What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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