Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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