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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.

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
May
Live
Right
Nemesis
Feel
Miserable
Feels
Blame
Wonderful
Forever
Someone

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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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