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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Thirties
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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