The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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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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Home is where your books are.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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