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If we don't risk anything, we risk 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
Even
Risk
Anything

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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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.
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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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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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