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The soul is awakened through service.

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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
Awakened
Service
Spiritual
Soul
Life

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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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