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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Erica Jong

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.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Betray Betrayal Betrayer
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG

Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Author Become Famous Know Personality Shakespeare Writer Wrote
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Anger Disappoint Hope Really
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Beat Beaten Best Herself Need Slave
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Creative Gitl Good Still
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONG

Artists Earth Household Housewife Perhaps Sense Tender Were
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.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom

Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

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