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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

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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
Replaces
Expands
Merely
Dog
Heart
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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