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How could one create life with someone who represented death?

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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
Death
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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