Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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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