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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
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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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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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