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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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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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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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Most sex is not really intimate.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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