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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

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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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Wordless
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Joy
Pain
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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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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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