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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

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
Makes
Coldly
Love
Mechanically
Harriet
Pressing
Vans
Horne
Pocket
Expertly
Buttons
Calculator
Pockets
Calculators

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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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