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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
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Women
Every
Orgasms
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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