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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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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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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Love gives without taking
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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