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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
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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 Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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