Erica Jong Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Wings

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

• 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

  Daughter, Freedom, Giving

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

• Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Giving Up, Air

• You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Voice, Giving

• Love gives without taking

  Erica Jong

  Sweet, Romantic Love, Giving

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.20, Open Road Media

• We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Oxygen, Giving

• We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

  Erica Jong

  Dark, Opportunity, Order

• Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

  Erica Jong

  People, Giving, Complaining

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.164, Penguin

• As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Past, Thinking

• Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

  Erica Jong

  Pain, Flower, Love Is

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.20, Open Road Media

• Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

  Erica Jong

  Giving, Fixing, Way

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 02, 2016

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