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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

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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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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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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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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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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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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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