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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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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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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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