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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

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
Aphrodisiac
Genius
Strong

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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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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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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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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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