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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

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
Everything
Book
Need
Needs
Finish
Trying
Necessarily
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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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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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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