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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Heart
Poets
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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 have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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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