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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 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. "

Erica Jong

Hand

Year

Book

" I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. "

" It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork. "

" 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. "

" Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. "

Erica Jong

Dark

Talent

" Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. "

" In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. "

" Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. "

" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. "

" I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. "

Erica Jong

Rave

Forgotten

" 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. "

" You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. "

Erica Jong

Pictures

People

" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

" People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. "

" I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. "

" 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. "

" If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

Erica Jong

You

Risk

" It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. "

" Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Erica Jong

Successful

Sometimes

" Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. "

" 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. "

" Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. "