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A baby's mother also needs a mother.

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
Baby
Mother
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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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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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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