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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

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
Soul
Colour
Souls
Neither
Sex

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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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