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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong
Hate, Hands, People

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Erica Jong
Hate, Thinking, Warfare
Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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.

Erica Jong
Prayer, War, Hate
"Into the Lion's Den". www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2000.

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Erica Jong
Love, Life, Hate
Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

Erica Jong
Hate, Sometimes, Unusual
Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.32, Grove Press

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