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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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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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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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