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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

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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
Relationship
Women
Work
Never
Men

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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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