I look forward and see myself look back.
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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Home is where your books are.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I 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.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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