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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

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
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Life
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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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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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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