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 JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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