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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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