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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Men
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Along
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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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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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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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