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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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