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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

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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Poetry
Voice
Death
Human
Humans

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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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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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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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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