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More Quotes by Erica Jong
Home is where your books are.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
