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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

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
Logic
Knowledge
Faith
Heart
Mind

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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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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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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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