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" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "
Erica Jong
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Grandchildren
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" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "
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" I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. "
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" When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. "
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" The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "
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" Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. "
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" In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. "
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" Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. "
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" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "
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" When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order. "
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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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" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "
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" I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. "
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" Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. "
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" I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. "
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" It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. "
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" 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. "
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" Solitude is un-American. "
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" As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living. "
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" Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. "
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" Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. "
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" Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? "
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" I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily. "
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" Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. "
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" 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. "
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" I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. "
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" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "
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