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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.

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
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Equation
Bearing
Equations
Daughter

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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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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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