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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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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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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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