What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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