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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

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
Aphrodisiac
Genius
Strong

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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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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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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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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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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