What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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