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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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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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 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.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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