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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

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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
Endears
Misery
Friends
Love

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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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.
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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.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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