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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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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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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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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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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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