Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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