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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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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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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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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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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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