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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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