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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.

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
Money
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Exploits
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Love
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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