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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
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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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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