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The soul is awakened through service.

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
Awakened
Service
Spiritual
Soul
Life

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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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