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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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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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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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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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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