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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
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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