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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
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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 soul is awakened through service.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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