Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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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.Erica Jong
You gave me: one book of love poems,
five years of peace
& two of pain.
Erica Jong
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
I love his spiritual sister
because she snatched clarity
from her murky history.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as 'women's issues' and learn that they are everyone's issues essential to survival on planet Earth.
Erica Jong
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