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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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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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