Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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