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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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Words
Flesh
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Solitude is un-American.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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