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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
Life
Complacency
Particular
Hate
Love

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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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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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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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