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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

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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
Turning
Fifty
Flying
Terror
Hours
Moments
Punctuated
Like
Sheer
Boredom

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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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