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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

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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
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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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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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