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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
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Sheer
Boredom
Turning
Fifty
Flying
Terror
Hours
Moments
Punctuated

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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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