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From Quotes by Erica Jong
- Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
- What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a…
- I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep…
- Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the…
- 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…
- Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock.…
- 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…
- I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are…
- The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin,…
- The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
- I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my…
- Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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