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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Women
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Anything
Career
Best
Dying
Always
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World
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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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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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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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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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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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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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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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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