I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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 by exhortation.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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