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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
People
Greater
Suffering
Others
Believe

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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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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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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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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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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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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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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