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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
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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