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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

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
Makers
Given
Remember
Soul
Always
Wrought
Maker
Partly

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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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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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