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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

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
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Someone
Much
Think
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Thinking
Loving
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Freedom

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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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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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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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