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

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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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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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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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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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