Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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