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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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