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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.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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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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