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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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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