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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
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New York
Erica Mann Jong
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Love gives without taking
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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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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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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