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" Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. "
Erica Jong
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" Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. "
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" I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. "
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" You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. "
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" 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. "
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" Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. "
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" Men and women, women and men. It will never work. "
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" I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. "
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" It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. "
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" I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. "
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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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" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "
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" At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. "
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" I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion. "
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" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "
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" I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. "
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" I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. "
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" My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. "
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" You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "
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" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "
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" Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. "
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" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "
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" Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. "
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" Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change. "
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" Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it. "
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" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "
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" I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily. "
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" I've never been able to control my public image. "
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" What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. "
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