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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
Writing
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Control
Alone
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Actually
Fantasize
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Breathing
Children
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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