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

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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
Writer
Study
Important
Thing

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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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