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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

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
Locked
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Study
Important
Thing

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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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 have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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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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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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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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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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