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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

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
Orphan
Earth
Soul
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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