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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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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Love gives without taking
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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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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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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