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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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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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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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 am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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