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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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