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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.

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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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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 remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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