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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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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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