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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Empowered
Women
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Terrible
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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