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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
Giving
Love
Sweet
Taking
Gives
Without

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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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