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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
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Solitude is un-American.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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