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Anger is really disappointed hope.

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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
Disappointed
Anger
Hope
Inspirational
Really

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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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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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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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