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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

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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
Sign
Usually
Fear
Right
Something

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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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