My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Freedom 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.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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