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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
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New York City
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Erica Mann Jong
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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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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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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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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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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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Solitude is un-American.
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