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

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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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