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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

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
Freedom
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Power
Women
Roses
Cultivate
Rose
Point

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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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