Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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