Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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