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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
Grandchildren
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Funny

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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