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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

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
Education
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Important
Solitude
Meditation

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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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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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