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

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
Risks
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Doe
Anything
Even
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Solitude is un-American.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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