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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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 had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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