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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Remind
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Gift
Friends
Back
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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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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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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