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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
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New York
Erica Mann Jong
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Solitude is un-American.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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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 have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
Erica Jong
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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.
Erica Jong
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
Erica Jong
Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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