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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

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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
Grandchildren
Fabulous
Funny

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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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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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