Erica Jong quotes - page 7

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. (Erica Jong)
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. View quote
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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. View quote
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am thinking of the onion again.... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. View quote
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees husbands routinely do it to wives. View quote
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out. View quote
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My advice to a young writer: Never give up. Read everything you can read - particularly the writers who move you deeply. Study how they do what they do. Read and read and read ... and write and write and write. (Erica Jong)