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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
Taking
Gives
Without
Giving
Love
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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 lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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