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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

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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
Since
Words
Flesh
Pass
Along
Stay

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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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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Love gives without taking
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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