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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

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
Creative
Girl
Stills
Still
Good

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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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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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