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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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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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.
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