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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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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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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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