How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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