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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
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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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.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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