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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
Inspirational
Really
Disappointed
Anger
Hope

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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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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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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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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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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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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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