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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
Life
Surviving
Born
Means
Mean

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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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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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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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