Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Quotes from 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
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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
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 endure your writing
& your life.
Erica Jong
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Erica Jong
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