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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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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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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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