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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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