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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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