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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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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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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Keeping a journal implies 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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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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The soul is awakened through service.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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