What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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