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Anger is really disappointed hope.

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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
Disappointed
Anger
Hope
Inspirational
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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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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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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