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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
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Erica Mann Jong
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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