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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

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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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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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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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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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.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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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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