I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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