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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

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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
Fifty
Flying
Terror
Hours
Moments
Punctuated
Like
Sheer
Boredom
Turning

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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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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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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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