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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Jealousy
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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