To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Breast-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.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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