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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

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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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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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