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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
Lives
Great
Men
Variance
Profess
Ems
Hypocrisy
Consistent

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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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