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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Easily
Wings
Loves
Told
Power
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Substantial
Staying
Legs

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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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Most sex is not really intimate.
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