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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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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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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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