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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.

Erica Jong

You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONG

Gossip Opiate Oppress
And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Forgiveness If Want What
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
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
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
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.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONG

Complete Creature Experience Feel Image Narrative Unless Record
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONG

Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
Conflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONG

Conflict Literature Soul
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONG

Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG

Blame Hand Happen Life Own Take Terrible Thing

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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