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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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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