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 JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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