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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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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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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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