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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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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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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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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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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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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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 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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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