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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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