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 JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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