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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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Erica Mann Jong
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
Erica Jong
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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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
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 think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
Erica Jong
Eating is never so simple as hunger.
Erica Jong
You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
Erica Jong
we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Erica Jong
Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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