Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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