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Conflict is the soul of literature.

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
Conflict
Literature
Soul

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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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