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I remember everything but forgive anyway.

Erica Jong

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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
Forgive
Anyway
Forgiving
Remember
Everything

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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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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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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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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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