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" Men and women, women and men. It will never work. "
Erica Jong
Women
Work
Men
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" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. "
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" Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. "
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" I've never been able to control my public image. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "
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" Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. "
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" Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? "
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" I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? "
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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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" 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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" 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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" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "
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