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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

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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
Words
Flesh
Pass
Along
Stay
Since

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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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