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Hate generalizes love is particular.

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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
Love
Life
Complacency
Particular
Hate

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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.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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