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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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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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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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