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Hate generalizes love is particular.

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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
Complacency
Particular
Hate
Love
Life

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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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