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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

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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Loving
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Freedom
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Someone
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Gains

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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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