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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

Erica Jong

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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
Soul
Mind
Messenger
Inhabitants
Messengers
Wiser
Body

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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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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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 write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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