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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Language
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Murky
Someone
Pocket
Mean
Pockets
Clarity
Pick
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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