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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Always
Licking
Luckily
Toes
Edge
Edges
Writers
Fire
Turns
Inferno

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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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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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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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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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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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