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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
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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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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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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