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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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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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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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