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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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