"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

#Daughter Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Giving Quotes

“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.”
“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
“Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.”
“You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.”
“You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.”
“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.
“Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day”
“The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.”

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