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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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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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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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 don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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