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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
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Another
Cannot
Soul
Hath
Judged
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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