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A wet dream in the mind of New York.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
York
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Mind
Wet
California

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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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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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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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