Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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In 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.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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