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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

Erica Jong

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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
Sensitive
Dog
Understand
World
Identify
Nose
Noses
Dogs

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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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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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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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