Quotes by Erica Jong

Erica Jong

… what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

After Death

Great Poetry

Voice

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[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation – and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.

People

Real

Writing

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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 you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

Baby

Jobs

Mother

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A baby’s mother also needs a mother.

Baby

Mother

Needs

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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Book

Profound

Reading

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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Book

Reading

Strikes

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A concern with ‘public morality’ is – if not the last refuge of a scoundrel – the first foray of the fascist.

Firsts

Lasts

Morality

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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Book

Censorship

Self

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A man assumes that a woman’s refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it’s no. When a woman says no, it’s yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.

Believe

Men

Views

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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Dog

Heart

Pet Loss

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