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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

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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
Parenting
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Women

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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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