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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

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
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Pain
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Wordless

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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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 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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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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