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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

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
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Doe
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Irony
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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