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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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