The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONG