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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

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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
Someone
Pocket
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Clarity
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Language
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Murky

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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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