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 JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Home is where your books are.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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