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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.

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
Creativity
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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