The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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