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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

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
Fool
Wisdom
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Also
Ever
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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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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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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