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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 13

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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Teaching, Feminism, Pushing

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

Home, House, Degrees

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.162, Penguin

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Female Writers, Generations, Fiction

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Time, Mind, Dresses

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.131, Open Road Media

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Truth, Expecting

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.11, Penguin

You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

Country, Weight, Fats

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

Sex, Independent, Men

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.55, Penguin

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Men, Identity, Needs

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Sex, Equal

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

Morning, Anxiety, Next

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.30, Penguin

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

Fire, Licking, Toes

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

Writing, Soil, Common

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Men, He Man, Psychiatry

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.171, Open Road Media

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Thinking, Sharks, Fancy

Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Inspirational, Lows, Worst

Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

Dog, Play, Knows

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.8, Penguin

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Writing, Firsts, Should

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

Mother, Baby, Jobs

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.43, Penguin

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.

Home, Learning, Men

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Beautiful, Birth, Beautiful Things

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.161, Penguin

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Art, Play, Perfection

Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

Artist, Greatest Treasure, Gold

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.53, Penguin

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

Writing, People, Lasts

Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.52, Grove Press

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

Art, Book, Writing

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

Hurt, Husband, People

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