Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Home is where your books are.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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