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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.

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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
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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