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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 sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
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
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
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Believe Death Men never Own People Possibility Reason Send War Young
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
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Gossip Opiate Oppress
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONG

Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONG

Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
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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Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Hope Implies Journal Keep
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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All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG

Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write

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