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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
Erica Jong
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
Erica Jong
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
Erica Jong