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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Poetry
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Fiction
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Women
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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