Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGI 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.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGAlways do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG