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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

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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
Adhering
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Totally
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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 have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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