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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
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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