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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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 am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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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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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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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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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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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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