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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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