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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
Everything
Forgive
Anyway
Forgiving
Remember

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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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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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