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Erica Jong

American

March 26, 1942

Novelist

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

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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

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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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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 think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

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Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

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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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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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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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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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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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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

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