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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

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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
Funny
Grandchildren
Fabulous

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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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