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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

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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
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Naked
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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