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Solitude is un-American.

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
Solitude
American

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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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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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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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