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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
Love
Life
Complacency
Particular
Hate

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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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