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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the 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
Sadness
Convinced
Ways
Way
World
Compromise

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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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