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I look forward and see myself look back.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
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Erica Mann Jong
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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