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Love is everything it's cracked up to be

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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
Everything
Love
Cracked

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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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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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