No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Home is where your books are.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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