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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York
Erica Mann Jong
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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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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