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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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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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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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 actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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