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Erica Jong Quotes

American - Novelist | March 26, 1942 -

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

Think Professionalism You Important

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

City Stone Mirrors Air Solid Liquid

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.

Love Beginning Death Poetry Paradox

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Woman Man Me Feel You Guilty

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Forgotten Reviews Like Most Rave

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Courage Talent Dark Place Follow

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.

Love Women Live Motherhood Believe

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Women People Deep Think Way Things

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.

School Poetry People Speak Think

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.

Me Husband Talking You Hug Scent

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.

Style I Am Writing Think Way Write

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

Women History Equality Group Been

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