Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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