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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.

Erica Jong

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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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Written
Morning
Process
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Feel
Familiar
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Anxiety
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Calm

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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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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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