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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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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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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.
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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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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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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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