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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
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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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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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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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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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