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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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