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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.

Erica Jong

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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Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Creative Gitl Good Still
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
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.
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Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
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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Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Far Fear Foolish Future Humankind Most
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
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Bluntest Instrument Silence
Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Emotional Image Kind Shorthand
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Endear Friend Love Misery Our
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Must Given Something

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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