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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
Dog
Heart
Never
Replaces
Expands
Merely

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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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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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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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