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Most sex is not really intimate.

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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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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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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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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