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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
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Compromise
Sadness
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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