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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
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Orphan
Earth
Soul

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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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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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Love gives without taking
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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