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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
Sex
Soul
Colour
Souls
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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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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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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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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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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