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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Short
Poetry
Started
Dark
Matches
Striking
Ecstasy
Immediate
Direct

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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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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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