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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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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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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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