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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.

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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Tumult
Tranquillity
Transcend
Characters
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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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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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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