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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Write
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Parting
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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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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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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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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