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I look forward and see myself look back.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Erica Jong
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
Erica Jong
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
Erica Jong
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
Erica Jong
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
Erica Jong
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
Erica Jong
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
Anger is really disappointed hope.
Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Erica Jong
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
Erica Jong
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
Erica Jong
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Erica Jong
Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
Erica Jong
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?
Erica Jong
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
Erica Jong
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
Erica Jong
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
Erica Jong
The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
Erica Jong