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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

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
Mind
Logic
Knowledge
Faith
Heart

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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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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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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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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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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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