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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

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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
Souls
Neither
Sex
Soul
Colour

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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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