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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

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
Passion
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Another
Cannot
Soul
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Judged

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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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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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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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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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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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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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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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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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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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