More Quotes by Erica Jong
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.
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Conflict is the soul of literature.
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
