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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.

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
Stars
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Transient
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Memory
Memories
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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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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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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