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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
Life
Complacency
Particular
Hate
Love

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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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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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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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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.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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