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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

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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
Individual
Women
Parenting
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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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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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 convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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