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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

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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
Heart
Never
Replaces
Expands
Merely
Dog

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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Love gives without taking
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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