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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.

Erica Jong

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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
Thinking
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Spend
Wonderful
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Way
Time
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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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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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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