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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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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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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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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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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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