The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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 trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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