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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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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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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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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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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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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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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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