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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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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 never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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