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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Erica Jong
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
Erica Jong
Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
Erica Jong
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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
Erica Jong
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
Erica Jong
Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
Erica Jong
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
Erica Jong
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
Erica Jong
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Erica Jong
