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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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Often
World
People
Exceptional
Ordinary
Crazy

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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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