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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
Erica Jong
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
Erica Jong
A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
Erica Jong
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
Erica Jong
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
Erica Jong
In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
Erica Jong
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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