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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.

Erica Jong

It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
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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Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
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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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Must Given Something
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Doing Fera Right Sign Something Usually
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Artists Earth Household Housewife Perhaps Sense Tender Were
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
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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Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
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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Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONG

Investment Love Marriage
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
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG

City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Blame Hand Happen Life Own Take Terrible Thing
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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Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story

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