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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

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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Anything
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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