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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
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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