Poems List
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I knew I was in England by the smell.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
It was not clear how it would end. In nineteenth- century novels, they get married. In twentieth-century novels, they get divorced. Can you have an ending in which they do neither?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Men and women, women and men—it will never work.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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Erica Jong nasceu em Nova Iorque. Ela se formou no Barnard College e obteve um mestrado em literatura inglesa na Universidade de Columbia. Começou sua carreira escrevendo poesia, publicando seu primeiro livro de poemas, "Fruits & Vegetables", em 1971. Seu romance de estreia, "Medo de Voar", foi um best-seller e a catapultou para a fama, tornando-a um ícone da segunda onda do feminismo. Jong continuou a escrever romances, incluindo "A Mulher Inventada" (How to Save Your Own Life), "A Deusa Interior" (The Golden Fleece) e "A Feiticeira" (Witches). Além de ficção, ela também escreveu ensaios, memórias e livros infantis. Seu trabalho frequentemente aborda temas de liberdade sexual, identidade feminina e a busca por autoaceitação. Erica Jong continua ativa como escritora e comentarista, mantendo sua voz influente na literatura contemporânea.