Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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