What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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