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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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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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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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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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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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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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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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