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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

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
Soul
Always
Wrought
Maker
Partly
Makers
Given
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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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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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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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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