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 JONGYou see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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