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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Night
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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