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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

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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Males
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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 most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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