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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

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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
Singularity
Wrong
Shows
Mind
Something
Adaptability

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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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 went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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