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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

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
Adventure
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Courage
Takes
Life

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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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