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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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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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