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Erica Jong
Erica Jong
American Novelist
Born: Mar 26, 1942
Life Love People Think Women You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. Erica Jong
Women Rich Enormous Other Those Would Kinder Would-Be Criticizing Some Between Sadly Because Mothers Afford Refrain Poor Who Many Gap
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? Erica Jong
Parenting Women Individuals Women Are Why Why Not
When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. Erica Jong
You Guarded Everyone Know Hard Thinks
It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork. Erica Jong
You Book Everybody Out Sexy Come Known Reads Said Heard Get Woodwork Happens Crazies Unimaginable
I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly. Erica Jong
Women People Think Changed Way Machine Sexism Tend Underlying Still Women Are Get Happens Interested Deep Publicity Publicly Things Treated
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. Erica Jong
Myself People Complain Back About Give Never Fame Famous Famous People Want Included
I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive. Erica Jong
Work Young Think Jobs Writers Know How Lot Survive To Survive Young Writers Hard Teaching Two
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. Erica Jong
Silence Legal First Despair Type Pen Easy Able Computer Write Computer Screen Put Line Sitting Screen Being Sentence Pad Desk
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. Erica Jong
Love Women Motherhood Live Believe Difficult Always Passionately Been Intellect Intellectually Themselves Should Choose Express
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people. Erica Jong
Marriage Hurt Women People Others Significant Husbands Structure Tend Upset Want Social
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. Erica Jong
Met Feminism Pleasure Writers Pushing Gotten Lot Younger Worked Teaching
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. Erica Jong
World Through Identify Understand Dogs Very Nose Sensitive
I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. Erica Jong
Man Women Amazing Own Our Seventies See Attached Delight Know Identity Stigma Prove Any Sixties Being Anymore Fifties Who Many Need
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