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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

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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
Sedative
Powerlessness
Strangely
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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