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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

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
Generations
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Lost
Right
Every
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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