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"A Day in the Life ..." How To Save Your Own Life (1977)As quoted in Contemporary Poets, 3rd ed. by James Vinson (1980)As quoted in Mountain Moving Day by Elaine Gill (1973)as quoted in Necessary Losses, by Judith Viorst (1986)As quoted in Newsweek (June 23, 1986)

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I figure that if I'm confused, you are, too, After all, we are the Whiplash Generation (patent pending): raised to be Doris Day, traversing our twenties yearning to be Gloria Steinem, then doomed to raise our midlife daughters in the age of Nancy Reagan and Princess Di. Now it's Hillary Rodham Clinton, thank goodness.

Erica Jong

Erica Jong (20th century), U.S. author. Fear of Fifty: A Middle Life Memoir, reprinted in Barnard Magazine (summer 1994).

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