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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
Friends
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Misery

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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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