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

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
Something
Sign
Usually
Fear
Right

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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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