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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Criticism
Reality
Opiate
Opiates
Rumours
Oppressed
Gossip
Envy

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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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