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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
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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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 write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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