The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Home is where your books are.
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