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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

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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
Never
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Irony
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Journalism
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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