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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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