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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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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
America
Spain
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Every
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Hollywood
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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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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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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