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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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