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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Erica Jong

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONG

Always Cheerful Confident Envied Everything Friend Practical Secretly Seem Terrified
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.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG

Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONG

Earth Every Feel Itself Know Orphan Soul
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONG

Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONG

Artists Earth Household Housewife Perhaps Sense Tender Were
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONG

Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
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.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONG

Investment Love Marriage
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONG

Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONG

Creative Gitl Good Still
Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONG

Evidence Life Need
Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONG

Colour Neither Sex Soul
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONG

Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONG

Direction Face Long Matter Right Size Step

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