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Surviving means being born over and over.

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
Surviving
Born
Means
Mean
Life

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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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