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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

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
Men
Entire
Life
Negative
Enjoy
Woman
Didn
Fats
Thing
Improve
Always
Bed
Never
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Love gives without taking
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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