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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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