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.
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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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