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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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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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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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