The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGFreedom 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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 exhortation.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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