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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
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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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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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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