I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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