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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

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
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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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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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