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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
Important
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Locked
Writer
Study

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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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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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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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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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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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