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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

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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
Parenting
Individuals
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Women

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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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