Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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