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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Generations
Gloria
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Diana
Princess
Confused
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Doris
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Dori

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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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