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.
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Anger is really disappointed hope
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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.
