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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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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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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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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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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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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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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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