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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
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Every
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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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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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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