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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

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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
Flying
Terror
Hours
Moments
Punctuated
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Sheer
Boredom
Turning
Fifty

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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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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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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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