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Because I loved myself, I was loved.

Erica Jong

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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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.
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Love gives without taking
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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 am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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