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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.

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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
Thinking
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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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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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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