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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

Erica Jong

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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
Like
Caviar
Acquired
Taste
Courage
Fear
Always
Things

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I look forward and see myself look back.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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