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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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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
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Opiates
Rumours
Oppressed
Gossip
Envy

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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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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 body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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