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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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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
Women
Motivational
Empowerment
Take
Terrible
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Thing
Responsibility
Controlled
Life
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Ethics
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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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.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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