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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
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Press
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Doe
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Irony

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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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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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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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