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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

It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG

Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
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.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG

Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONG

Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
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
Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONG

Book Home One Liner
I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONG

Brighter Could Darkest Even Just Know Night Special Star Think Truly
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even More Risk Trouble
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
Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONG

Evidence Life Need
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
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
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONG

Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think
I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONG

Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand

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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