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How could one create life with someone who represented death?

Erica Jong

Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
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
The soul is awakened through service.
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Awakened Service Soul Through
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.
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Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
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.
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Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Investment Love Marriage
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
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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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Must Given Something
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Beat Beaten Best Herself Need Slave

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