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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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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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