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 JONGBreast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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