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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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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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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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