Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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