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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

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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
Exploited
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Feminist
Equality
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History
Women
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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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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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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Love gives without taking
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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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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