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" The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "
Erica Jong
Even
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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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" 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. "
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" I've never been able to control my public image. "
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" Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. "
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" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. "
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" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "
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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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" 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 cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. "
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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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Air
City
" I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. "
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