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.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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