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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Erica Jong

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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
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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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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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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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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 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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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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