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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Love gives without taking
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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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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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