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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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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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