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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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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Greater
Suffering

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Love gives without taking
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