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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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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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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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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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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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 accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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