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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Memories
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Traces
Stars
Disappeared
Transient
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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