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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
Knowledge
Faith
Heart
Mind
Logic

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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Love gives without taking
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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