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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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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
Greater
Suffering
Others
Believe
People

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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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