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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

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
Women
Passionately
Live
Intellectually
Believe
Motherhood
Always
Intellect
Love
Shouldn
Express
Choose
Difficult

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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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