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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Size
Steps
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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The soul is awakened through service.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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