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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
Grandchildren
Fabulous
Funny

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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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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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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 see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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