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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
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Erica Mann Jong
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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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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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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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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