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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

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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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Venice
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Water
Disappoint
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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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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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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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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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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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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