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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
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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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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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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 went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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