If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault. - Erica Jong
" "If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
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About Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 26 March 1942) is an American author and educator. Born in New York City, Jong graduated from Barnard College in 1963. She is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying (published in 1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires.
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Erica Mann Jong
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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