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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.

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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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 no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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