My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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