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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

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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
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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