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 JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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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.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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