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Because I loved myself, I was loved.

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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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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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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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