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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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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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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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