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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Fabulous Funny Grandchildren

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I've never been able to control my public image.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Able Been Control Image Never Public Public Image

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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Fiction Hard Nonfiction Simultaneously

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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.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Am Became Even First Getting Miracle Money Never Poet Poets Published Writer I Am

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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Baby Beloved Born Dies Emotional Fall Friend Life Love Moments Most Our Poetry Turn

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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Cook Daughter Mother

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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.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Because Dishes Embarrassed Him Home Husband Invite Met Might Mother Order Refused Serve Wrong

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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.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Advances Bankrupt Book Disappearing Down Effectively Going Hand Publishing Slowly Takes Unless Write Year You I Write

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Bill Cheaper Declining Life Move Pay Poetry Somewhere Spend Teaching Think Thought Writing Years I Think

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All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Aunt Grandfather Living Mother Painted Portraits Too Worked

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 26th, 1942

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