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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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