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Surviving means being born over and over.

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
Surviving
Born
Means
Mean
Life

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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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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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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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