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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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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