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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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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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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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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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