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A baby's mother also needs a mother.

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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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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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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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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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