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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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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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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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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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