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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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Power
Women
Roses
Cultivate
Rose
Point
Freedom

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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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