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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
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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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 soul is awakened through service.
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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