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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Nothing
Till
Writing
Commit
Always
Paper
Things
Quite
Waiting
Write
Reality
Home
Revising

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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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