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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
Mind
Logic
Knowledge
Faith
Heart

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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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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 do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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