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" Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. "
Erica Jong
Ears
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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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" 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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" He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. "
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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 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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" 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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" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "
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" You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "
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" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "
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" 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. "
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" Solitude is un-American. "
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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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" Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? "
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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. "
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" Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. "
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" 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. "
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Fool
" 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. "
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School
Think
" Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. "
Erica Jong
Oppressed
Gossip
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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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" 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. "
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Go
Think
World
" The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "
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Even
You
Risk
" When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. "
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Thinks
You
Everyone
" 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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Ahead
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Life
" 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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" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Women
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Beginning
" Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. "
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