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Anger is really disappointed hope.

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
Really
Disappointed
Anger
Hope
Inspirational

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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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