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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Forties
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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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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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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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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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Love gives without taking
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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