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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
Hard
Nonfiction
Simultaneously
Fiction

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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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