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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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