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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Erica Jong
War, Men, Two

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Erica Jong
War, Believe, Men
Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.76, Penguin

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.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

Erica Jong
War, Practice, People
Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.40, Penguin

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