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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.

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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
Bearing
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Daughter
Half
Equation

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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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