Our Friends Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
~ Erica Jong Quote
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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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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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted
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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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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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