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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

Erica Jong

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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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Spending
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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.
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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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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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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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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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