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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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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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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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 baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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