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" 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. "

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" I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else. "

Erica Jong

Feminism

Women

Want

" 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. "

" As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living. "

" Solitude is un-American. "

" Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. "

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

" I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. "

" 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

" I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. "

" I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. "

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

Erica Jong

Dark

Talent

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

" I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive. "

" Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? "

" 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. "

Erica Jong

See

Funny

" Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. "

" 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. "

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

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

" Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. "

Erica Jong

Feel

Man

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "

" Men and women, women and men. It will never work. "

" All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. "

" 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. "