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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
Think
Mine
Thinking
Along
Saying
Keep
Persons
Person
Come
Truck
Right
Mines

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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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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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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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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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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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