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More Quotes by Erica Jong
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Conflict is the soul of literature.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. 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.
Anger is really disappointed hope
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more
