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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

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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
Hard
Nonfiction
Simultaneously
Fiction

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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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