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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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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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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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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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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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