Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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