Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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