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Erica Jong
"What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation."
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Source : Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin
Erica Jong
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“According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.”
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“So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested me. I loved the idea of working in different countries. And I loved the idea of construction and working with imagery. But, yes, I fell into fashion a bit by mistake.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.”
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“You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.”
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“You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.”
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“If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.”
Source : "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007. 
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“Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day”
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“The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.”
