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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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
Opiates
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Oppressed
Gossip
Envy
Criticism
Reality
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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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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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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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