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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

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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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Loss
Pretty
Woman
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Always
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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