Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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 by exhortation.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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