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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

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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
Misery
Friends
Love
Endears

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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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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 who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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