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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.

Erica Jong

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember
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.
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Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
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.
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Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Beat Beaten Best Herself Need Slave
Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Anger Disappoint Hope Really
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONG

Able Cry Ever Experience Mist Must Stand Think Use Wonder
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONG

Camera Chronicle Create Enough Exist Existence Magical Must Transformation
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG

Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONG

Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
ERICA JONG

Enemy Feel Guilt Guilty Man Sell Show Tortue Weapon Woman Women Worst
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONG

Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Must Given Something

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