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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

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
Women
May
Children
Establish
Work
Habits
Never
Bear
Bears
Habit
Serious

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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