Erica Jong Quotes
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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I knew I was in England by the smell.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) 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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Love is serene and calm
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.