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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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 don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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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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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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