Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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