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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Pleasure
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Pushing
Younger
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Writers
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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