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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
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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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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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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