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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
Something
Adaptability
Singularity
Wrong
Shows
Mind

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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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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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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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