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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
Solitude
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Important

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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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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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