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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

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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
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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