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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Love gives without taking
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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