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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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
Every
Procrastinating
Procrastination
Judged
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Scared
Fear
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Procrastinate

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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Love gives without taking
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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