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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
Equation
Bearing
Equations
Daughter
Half

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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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