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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

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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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Inferno
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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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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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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