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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Envy
Criticism
Reality
Opiate
Opiates
Rumours
Oppressed
Gossip

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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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