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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.

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
Told
Power
Great
Substantial
Staying
Legs
Easily
Wings
Loves

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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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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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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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