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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

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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
Funny
Grandchildren
Fabulous

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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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