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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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