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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

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
House
Given
Remember
Leased
Every
Hillside
Never
Loan
Dare
Despair
Minutes

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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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