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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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