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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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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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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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