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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.

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
Truth
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Exploits
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Cynical
Love
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Writers
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Money

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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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 think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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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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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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