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

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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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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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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.
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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