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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
Life
Awakened
Service
Spiritual
Soul

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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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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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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