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.
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But you endure & marry,go on writing,
lose a husband, gain a husband,
go on writing,
sing & tap dance
& you go on writing,
have a child & still
you go on writing,
love a woman, love a man
& go on writing.
Erica Jong
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 can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong
You endure your writing
& your life.
Erica Jong
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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