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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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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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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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