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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
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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