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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Erica Jong

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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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