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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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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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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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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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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