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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

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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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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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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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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