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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
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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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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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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