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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

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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
Loyalty
Marriage
Friend
Worth
Sometimes
World
Disadvantages
Indifferent

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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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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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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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