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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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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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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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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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