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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

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
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Freedom
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Power
Women
Roses
Cultivate
Rose

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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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