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Erica Jong

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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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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

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"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."

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"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."

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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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"My grandchildren are fabulous and funny."

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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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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

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"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."

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"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."

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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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"My grandchildren are fabulous and funny."

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"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."

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"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."

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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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"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."

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"There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge."

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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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"Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?"

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"Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love."

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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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"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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"Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society."

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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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"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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"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."

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"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."

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