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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

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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
Dilemma
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Risk
Doe
Anything
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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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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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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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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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