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Name:
Erica Jong
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64
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American
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Women
(5)
Poetry
(3)
change
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courage
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Jealousy
(2)
Talent
(2)
Marriage
(2)
Money
(2)
Sex
(2)
Blame
(2)
Atheism
(1)
Home
(1)
Equality
(1)
Wisdom
(1)
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Fame
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My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Pornography
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You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Blame
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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Entertainment
86
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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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Women
85
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I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
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Sex
84
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Envy
83
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
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Blame
83
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Mind
83
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Money
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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Marriage
81
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Reading
79
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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change
78
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Solitude is un-American.
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Solitude
76
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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Hollywood
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Air
73
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Rendalls first law of jealousy jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.
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Jealousy
71
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Uncategorized
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When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
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Home
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The trouble is if you dont risk anything you risk even more.
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Paradox
67
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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.
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Poetry
66
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it
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Sex
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Change
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Procrastination
64
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Parenting
63
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Everyone has talent. Whats rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
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Talent
62
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones – like most writers.
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Uncategorized
61
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas.
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America
61
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All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Marriage
59
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Funny
59
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Women are not the richer s*x. Women are not equal in society.
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Uncategorized
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didnt.
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Cute
56
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
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Women
55
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Wisdom
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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
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Talent
54
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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courage
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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Identity
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I stand in the mist and cry thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Introspection
51
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Uncategorized
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Ambivalence
48
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Uncategorized
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I have accepted fear as part of life specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back....
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Courage
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Porn
44
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is gods messenger.
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Health
42
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Housework
39
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
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Poetry
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newtons first law of jealousy.
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Jealousy
38
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My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.
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Uncategorized
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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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Money
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