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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
Gives
Without
Giving
Love
Sweet
Taking

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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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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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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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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