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" 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. "

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" I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on. "

Erica Jong

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World

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never been able to control my public image. "

" 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

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Funny

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

" 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. "

" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "

" And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

" 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. "

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

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

Erica Jong

You

Risk

" Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. "

" 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. "

" We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. "

" The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. "

" He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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