Conflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Solitude is un-American.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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