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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.

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
Fats
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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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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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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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