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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
Replaces
Expands
Merely
Dog
Heart
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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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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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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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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