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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Love gives without taking
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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 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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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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