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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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