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

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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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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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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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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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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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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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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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