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Erica Jong quotes about words

American Novelist March 26, 1942

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I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner. Erica Jong
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. Erica Jong
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. Erica Jong
Erica Jong quote: "The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion..."
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. Erica Jong

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