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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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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.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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