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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.

Erica Jong

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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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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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