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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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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Solitude is un-American.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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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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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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