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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Century
Passion
Problem
Substituting
Women
Adornment
Love
Centuries
Feminism
Feminist
Fashion

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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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