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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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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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