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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

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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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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Love gives without taking
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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