If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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