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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.

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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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