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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Jealousy
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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