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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
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Serious

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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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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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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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