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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

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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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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