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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

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
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Ordinary
Crazy
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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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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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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