Erica Jong Quotes

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

Erica Jong

• Freedom
• Daughter
• Example
• Exhortation

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• I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

  

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• I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  

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• I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.

  

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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 by exhortation.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Freedom
  • Daughter
  • Example