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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
Nonfiction
Simultaneously
Fiction
Hard

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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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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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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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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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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Love gives without taking
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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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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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