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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.

Erica Jong

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONG

All Ambivalence Dance Own Rhythm Tune Wonderful
In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONG

Life Love Survive
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONG

Emotional Image Kind Shorthand
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG

Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG

City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONG

Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONG

Compass Utter Discipline Edit Freedom
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONG

Beat Beaten Best Herself Need Slave
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONG

Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONG

Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONG

Always Attitude Change History Line People Proceed Social Straight Think
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONG

Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG

Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick

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