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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Love gives without taking
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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