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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
Scared
Fear
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Looks
Procrastinate
Every
Procrastinating
Procrastination
Judged
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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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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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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