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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
Erica Jong
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
Erica Jong
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
Erica Jong
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Erica Jong
The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Erica Jong
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
Erica Jong
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
Erica Jong
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
Erica Jong
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
Erica Jong
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
Erica Jong
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
Erica Jong
In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
Erica Jong
Hate generalizes love is particular.
Erica Jong
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
Erica Jong