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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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Erica Mann Jong
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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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 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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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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