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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

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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
Years
Forty
Straight
Six
Allow
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Records
Funny
Past
Witty

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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 actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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Love gives without taking
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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