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

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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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Good
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Girl

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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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 don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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