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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Erica Jong

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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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 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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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Love gives without taking
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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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 thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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