Quote by Erica Jong
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the e

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. – Erica Jong

Other quotes by Erica Jong

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order. – Erica Jong

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Home
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving – instead of actually getting up and leaving. – Erica Jong

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Marriage
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. – Erica Jong

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Blame
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Other Quotes from
Housework
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. – Katharine Whitehorn, “Nought for Homework,” Roundabout, 1962

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Housework

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. – Rudyard Kipling

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Housework

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Housework

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. – Agatha Christie

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Housework

Random Quotes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Ive learned that you shouldnt go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back. – Maya Angelou

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Learning

It wasnt a secret that I was gay. Id come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car. – Mary Cheney

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car

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? – George Bernard Shaw

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car