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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
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Life

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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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