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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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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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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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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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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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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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