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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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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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Forty
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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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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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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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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