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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
Erica Jong
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
Erica Jong
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
Erica Jong
We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
Erica Jong
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Erica Jong
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Erica Jong
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
Erica Jong
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
Erica Jong
tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
Erica Jong
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
Erica Jong
Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
Erica Jong
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
Erica Jong
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
Erica Jong
