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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.

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
Daughter
Half
Equation
Bearing
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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