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

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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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Death
Human
Humans
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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