What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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