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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

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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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Fiction
Hard
Nonfiction

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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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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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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 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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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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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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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