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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Men
Variance
Profess
Ems
Hypocrisy
Consistent
Lives
Great

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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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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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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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