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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

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
Orphan
Earth
Soul
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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