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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

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
Orphan
Earth
Soul
Feels

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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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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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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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