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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
Courage
Fear
Always
Things
Like
Caviar
Acquired
Taste

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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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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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