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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.
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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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Most sex is not really intimate.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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