Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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