If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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