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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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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Love gives without taking
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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 feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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