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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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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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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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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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