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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.

Erica Jong

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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
Reality
Home
Revising
Nothing
Till
Writing
Commit
Always
Paper
Things
Quite
Waiting
Write

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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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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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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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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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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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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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