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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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