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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Good
Creative
Girl
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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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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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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