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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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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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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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