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One writes not by will but by surrender.

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
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Surrender

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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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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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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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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've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Love gives without taking
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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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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