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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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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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