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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Terrible
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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