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.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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