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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

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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Love
Salve
Wound
Wounds
Deeper
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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