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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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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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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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