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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Love gives without taking
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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