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Thinking Quotes by Erica Jong
- When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
- A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells…
- I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like…
- Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."
- They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
- I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the…
- Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And…
- Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
- It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
- 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…
- I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- 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.
- 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…
- The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to…
- Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's…
- I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to…
- 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,…
- I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever…
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