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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

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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Also
Ever
Without
Fool
Wisdom

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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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