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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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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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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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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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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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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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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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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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