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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

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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
Right
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Truck

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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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