What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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