Conflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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