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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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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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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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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