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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

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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
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Fancy
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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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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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 hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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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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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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