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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

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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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Hardest
Dreams
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Morning
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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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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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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