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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

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
Education
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Important
Solitude
Meditation

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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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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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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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