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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
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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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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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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