Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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