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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 think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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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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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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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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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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