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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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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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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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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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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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