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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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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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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.
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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.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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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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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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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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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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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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