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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

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
Freedom
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Power
Women
Roses
Cultivate
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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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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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