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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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