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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
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Souls
Neither
Sex
Soul

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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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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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