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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Every
Orgasms
Life
Someday
Like
Sex
Color
Family
Woman
Business
Women

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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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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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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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