Why does life need evidence of life?
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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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