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Courage is the only Magic worth having.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Magic
Courage
Worth

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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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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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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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