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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
Inspirational
Really
Disappointed
Anger
Hope

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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