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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

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
Thinks
Everyone
Hard
Thinking
Guarded

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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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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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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