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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

Erica Jong

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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
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Caviar
Acquired
Taste
Courage
Fear
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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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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