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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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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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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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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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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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