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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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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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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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