My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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