What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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