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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.

Erica Jong

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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
Concern
Concerns
Poetry
Paradox
Fiction
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Women
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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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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