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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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Someone
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Think
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Thinking
Loving
Loss
Freedom

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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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