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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.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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