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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

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
Salve
Wound
Wounds
Deeper
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Love

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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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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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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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