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 JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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