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I look forward and see myself look back.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Love gives without taking
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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