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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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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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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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