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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Everything
Secretly
Always
Practically
Cheerful
Terrified
Confident
Seemed
Though
Friends
Envied

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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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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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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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